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Missolve (verb) means to work out the answer to a problem in a way that is not correct.

verb

To work out the answer to a problem in a way that is not correct.

"For example, Mestre (1988) presented a detailed analysis of how Hispanic college students missolve the students-and-professor problem." — Lorna Idol, Beau Fly Jones (2013)

"Should the machine missolve or fail to solve the first, the second is doomed." — Christof Koch, Joel L. Davis (1994)

"But like Oedipus and Croesus before him, Macbeth missolves the riddles from the future, charging into doom." — Angus Fletcher, Wonderworks: Literary Invention and the Science of Stories (2022)

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